From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: English usage bug in bytecomp.el Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:22:25 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: snogglethorpe@gmail.com, miles@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110367648 18573 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 11:27:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:27:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 12:27:27 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8zKt-0002mZ-QO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 12:26:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8zUR-0005dC-7Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 06:36:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8ybQ-0005ie-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:39:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8ybI-0005hw-1z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:39:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8ybC-0005fV-W9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:39:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [64.233.184.197] (helo=wproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D8yKg-0001aU-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:22:26 -0500 Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 40so260244wri for ; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:22:25 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=mhKrg9UiBTM/bjah8rnHNHgDX2yL0lIO9VIlm1XZzfi1nDSZX6khdPpD9uFWiFhFZ0ELZCUooObEsPZjLRVwznd6z8aiYXxDR0NaoKKWdWrLFE1+2nkgK22r0z9Y5VNfHPcwfypyzegL8XS/WpushxJp9En8fITcjvDzvDU/Hjw= Original-Received: by 10.54.20.19 with SMTP id 19mr905814wrt; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:22:25 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.54.19.70 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 02:22:25 -0800 (PST) Original-To: David Kastrup In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34365 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34365 On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:49:50 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > "FOO is an obsolete function in version 21.4 and later." Your original suggestion of "as of" seems better: "FOO is an obsolete function (as of Emacs 21.4)" Seems simple, correct, very clear, and is just about the smallest change you could make. I think it's good enough that I've gone ahead and and changed it; if people want to continue arguing, I just give up. -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.